Capital Power

Tiffany Shaw has mapped the section of the North Saskatchewan River that flows through amiskwacîwâskahikan (Edmonton) while thinking about the Métis scrip process. 

Through research into familial ties, Inheritance demonstrates how systems of brutality and racism reverberate through our presents and futures.

This exhibition will show the pride, strength and beauty of First Nations people and cultures with the artist’s goal to contribute to the betterment of mankind.

Jude Griebel's anthropomorphic Barn Skull pays homage to Alberta's agricultural past and future.

This exhibition celebrates the 100th anniversary of the Group of Seven and other important Canadian artists of the early 20th century.

For Halie Finney smoke is a metaphor for grief that she uses to conjure childhood memories and convey the space that a body leaves behind.

Yvonne Mullock’s new work, Gift-Love uses utopic fashion principles to explore ideas of intimacy, touch, care and connection through textiles.

This March, the AGA Manning Hall Commission will feature new photographic work by Alberta-based artist Kablusiak.

Pioneering a fresh and vibrant use of colour, and known for his delicate handling of paint on small-scale wooden pochades, James Wilson Morrice (1865-1924) played a vital role in advancing modern artistic trends in Canada and abroad at the turn of the 20th century.

Townsend’s legacy includes a collection of modern paintings of the Canadian West and a lifetime of journals detailing his travels, works and artistic encounters.

This exhibition celebrates women who overcame the gender-prescribed barriers of their time to achieve success and acclaim as professional artists.

This exhibition presents over 120 works of art that act as markers for important moments in Canada's history. Not depictions or documents of specific people or events, the works show how artists interpret and represent the world and how their ideas and images can hold meaning in new contexts.

Portraits have the ability to express volumes about a subject but what do they reveal about the artist? Featuring paintings, photographs and sculpture by artists since the 19th century such as Walker Evans, Joe Fafard, Kathe Kollwitz, Diego Rivera and Andy Warhol, these portraits from the AGA collection demonstrate multifaceted reflections of artists and sitters in states of stature, vulnerability, activity and honesty.

Celebrate this nation’s terrain—from one side of the country to other, in each of the seasons and all of their colours. Featuring works by Canadian painters such as Emily Carr, Lawren Harris, Dorothy Knowles, Cornelius Krieghoff, Tom Thomson, Peter von Tiesenhausen, Horatio Walker and Sylvain Voyer, the AGA honours Canada’s 150th with landscape paintings from its collection.

The Unvarnished Truth: Exploring the Material History of Paintings brings together discoveries made by an international team of nearly 30 researchers―scholars of applied radiation sciences, anthropology, art history, biomedical engineering, as well as conservators, conservation scientists, forensic art historians, and curators―who worked together to examine nine historical paintings from the collections of the McMaster Museum of Art including works by Vincent Van Gogh, Alexander Rodchenko and Peter Paul Rubens’ workshop.

An exhibition of works by Tom Thomson, the Group of Seven and the 3 artists who joined the group before its dissolution in 1930. Showcasing works other than typical Ontario landscapes, such as portraits, city scapes, still lifes, and prairies. 

This exhibition analyzes the representation of monstrous beings in Early Modern visual culture by bringing together approximately fifty European prints of the 15th, 16th and 17th centuries drawn from the collection of the National Gallery of Canada.

Louise Bourgeois' extraordinary career influenced many of the 20th-century’s major movements in art and culture, from Surrealism to Abstract Expressionism, and Minimalism to Feminism.

Icons of Modernism focuses on the diversity, creativity, and achievements of these artists by presenting a selection of paintings, sculptures, films, and photographs drawn from the Gallery’s collections.